Gregory Luhan

GREGORY A. LUHAN, AIA, RA, NCARB
e-mail: gregory.luhan@uky.edu
Gregory A. Luhan is the Associate Dean for Research at the University of Kentucky-College of Design and an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture where he teaches digital studio and seminars on design theory and computing. Prior to teaching in Kentucky he worked for the New York City architecture firms Edward Larrabee Barnes, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey, and Agrest & Gandelsonas after graduating from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Princeton University. His professional research centers on the design, fabrication, and assemblage of flexible systems, which has produced a variety of award-winning “art to part” installation-based and residential-scaled projects that have been exhibited worldwide, including the first LEED Silver Certified House in Kentucky, entitled the Resonance House and the University of Kentucky’s Ninth Place entry to the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington DC.

Luhan’s research has garnered international awards and Best Paper Awards including the Primios a las Mejores Presentaciones in the category of Diseno Digital y Fabricacion at the IX (Ninth) Congreso Iberoamericano de Grafica Digital for his innovative uses of technology and instruction and his virtual models used for international competitions.

Luhan is an author, including Live.Light (ORO Editions, 2010); The Louisville Guide (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004) co-authored with David Mohney and Dennis Domer; curated The Digital Exchange with Kevin Klinger (ACADIA Publications, 2006); and edited Synthetic Landscapes with Mark Cabrinha, Cory Clarke, and Phillip Anzalone (ACADIA Publications, 2006). He is currently developing three book manuscripts: Digispeak (Taylor & Francis, 2012) featuring the collective contributions on digital terminology from several ACADIA members, Music That We See (ORO Editions, 2013), and The Modern House-Kentucky with Professor Clyde R. Carpenter that presents the use of advanced digital technology to represent these residential projects in light of their spatial metaphors through drawings, stereo-lithographic models, and short-form animations.

Gregory Luhan, Associate Dean for Research
University of Kentucky
College of Design
School of Architecture
117 Pence Hall
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0041 USA

Co-Principal Investigator with Lisa Tilder, The Ohio State University, Karl Daubmann, Assistant Professor, The University of Michigan, Julie Kim, Associate Professor, The University of Detroit Mercy, Kevin Klinger, Assistant Professor, Ball State University

University of Kentucky, Research and Design of the Center for Visualization Research, Vice-President for Information Technology, $15,250

Principal Investigator

2001

University of Kentucky, $1,000

Travel grant, Syllabus.com Conference

1999

University of Kentucky, $700

Travel grant, Convergence Conference

2009-2010

University of Kentucky, College of Design-School of Architecture, Professor of the Year Award

Professor of the Year Award

Areas of Expertise

Areas of Expertise & Research: Digital visualization leading to digital manufacturing with applications aligning with and leading to design-build projects, full-scale “art-to-part” assembly, and fabrication of ecological design features.

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Design, School of Architecture, "Reflecting Traditions, Reconstructing Pasts, and Projecting Futures," 2004 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference, Louisville, KY, 28 September - 01 October 2004

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Design, School of Architecture, Digital Design Studio, "In the Digital Heartland," ACADIA National Conference, Indianapolis, IN, 21-24 October 2003

"Digital Media within the Design Studio: Reading the Object Through Materiality and Spirit," Exhibition and Poster Session, ACSA National Conference, Los Angeles, CA, at the IAR - Initiative for Architectural Research, March 2001

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Design, "634 North Limestone-Ten Panels," An Exhibition of Architecture at the J. Pepper Distillery Provisional Gallery, Lexington, KY, 27 April-02 May 2007

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Resonance House," 17 September 2006 at The Urban Life and Style Tour, Lexington Downtown Development Corporation in Lexington, KY (500 attendees)

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Resonance House," 10 February 2006 at The Arts Showcase Weekend in Lexington, KY

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Resonance House," 19 September 2005 at The Urban Life and Style Tour, Lexington Downtown Development Corporation in Lexington, KY (300 attendees)

ARC 828: Computing in Architecture, University of Kentucky, College of Design, School of Architecture, "enVisioning UK," 15 May - 31 July 2003 at the Downtown Design Center 218 E. Main Street

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Woolworth Building - Emerging Possibilities," 15 November-22 November 2002 at The Hunt-Morgan House in Lexington, KY

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "Deep-Time Probe | Mission Wall," Public Art at the Scale of an Urban Park, ideaFestival, 14 September-16 December 2002 at the Circuit Courthouse Lawn in Downtown Lexington, KY

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Hong Kong Reclamation International Design Competition," 26 January-09 February 2002 at UDS in Louisville, KY

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "The Idea Factory," 07 December-14 December 2001 at Downtown Design Center in Lexington, KY

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, "Fabricating Cultural Containers: The Space of an Idea - Virtual House," 16 September-30 September 2000 at Idea Festival in Lexington, KY

ARC_828: Computing in Architecture and Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, AIA/CSI-Kentucky, "Representative Student Work," in Louisville, Kentucky, 22-26 February 2000

Digital Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, Founder's Square in Louisville, Kentucky, "Transcendence: Architectures In-between Appearance and Reality," 15-25 November 1999; Opening on 19 November 1999

First-year Design Studio, University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, The Arts Place, Lexington, Kentucky, "Body Wraps," 30 April 1999

Professional Competitions

Refereed International & National Competitions:

ACADIA/IJAC 2007 Cover Image Competition, hosted by the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture in collaboration with the International Journal of Architectural Computing, with Kevin Klinger and Joshua Vermillion,[Honorable Mention]

Luhan, Gregory A. "Beyond Building | The Space of RM Schindler." Paper presented for the Sunshine Research Fellowship, at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia, 18 April 2002.

Luhan, Gregory A. "The Place of Abstraction." Paper presented at the Beginning Design Conference, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 15 March 2002.

Luhan, Gregory A. "From Installation to Inhabitation." Paper presented at the ACSA East Central Regional Conference, Detroit, Michigan, 07-09 October 2005. Winner of the Best Paper Presentation (Submitted to the ACSA National Conference)

Luhan, Gregory A. "Infill Housing | The Politics of Public Housing." Research presentation from the HUD-COPC grant: East Lexington, University of Kentucky, W.T. Young Library, Lexington, Kentucky, 25 September 2003.

Luhan, Gregory A. "Compositions of Pixels, Lines, and Planes." Paper presented at the University of Kentucky, Gaines Humanities Center, Colloquium on Research and Creative Work, Lexington, Kentucky, 22 March 2000.

Luhan, Gregory A. "Excess (in)FINITE Space." Paper presented at the University of Kentucky, College of Architecture, Lexington, Kentucky, 12 February 1999.